Tal Benisty

It’s by the inimitable @odpomery.bsky.social 👑

What can I say this time?

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Thank you so much for sharing this! 🙏

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Hi there, I would like to talk about paywalls

Today I had a rather large article drop in Slate and there was a soft paywall. A lot of people commented upset about that paywall

Let's talk about:

a) how to get around paywalls
b) why you shouldn't be mad about them

I'd love to see a video of you(on your usual trail / route) to get a better sense of what it's like for you out there 👋

Can you share more about the appeal?

I’d love to be convinced to try it sometime 🙏

Lmao

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person During the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …

Beautiful, poignant writing by @sandyernestallen.bsky.social

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Tony can you at least not place them in the *middle* of a bullet point list? 😅

And yes, the location in the middle of the post is quite intrusive.

And also it advertises access to something I myself am not paywalling.

It implies I’m part of a program that I did not take part in.

I write and share freely. Others may paywall, but I don’t.

So please leave me out of it ❤️

It would make sense to me if the ad appeared on a paywalled post. Or even a paywalled post that was shared with a gift link. But my articles are free, and while they may not directly bring in revenue to Medium, they do bring people to the website.

A screenshot of my free, unpaywalled Medium article with a Medium ad in the middle —that I did *not* put there— with the title “Access to all of it.” even though all my articles are free.

@coachtony.bsky.social I say this with love: is there any chance you can stop enshittifying my free articles for everyone? ❤️

PS. I’ve been using Medium since 2008, this is the first time I‘m considering hosting my own blog 🫠

"Assume everyone I interact with online is struggling with their mental health" has only become a more important guiding principle in the past couple years

Turn the volume up. - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Ten things I took away from one remarkable, history-making moment. Turn the volume up. www.anildash.com/2025/11/05/t...

Seems Whatsapp (MacOS) doesn't support :emojis (a-la-Slack) anymore, but Rocket gets the job done 👌

matthewpalmer.net/rocket/

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

“What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn.”

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HAL & HARPER | Official Trailer | On MUBI Oct 19 YouTube video by MUBI

If you liked Transparent, or Cooper Raiff's previous works, watch Hal & Harper asap.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSs...

Welcome to the club César! 🥳

I hope you're feeling the relief of diagnosis ❤️

The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

Decoder is up for a Signal award for best business podcast! Vote vote vote please vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

The AI Kids Take San Francisco Brilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image.

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Illustration of three people standing on a hill beneath a huge orange sun. Large black text at the top reads: ‘It’s a Beautiful Day to Yell At God.’ One figure raises their arms and shouts ‘WHAT THE FUCK?’ while another says ‘COME OUT! WE JUST WANNA TALK.’ Bold text in the corner says ‘FACE US YOU COWARD.’

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

The 5 Blows to the Human Ego Donna Haraway, one of my favorite professors from my time at UCSC, came up with a list of the four major blows to the human ego: ideas which caught on, undermined our supposed central place in the uni...

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The Copernican Revolution
The Kepler revolution
Darwinian thought
Freud’s ideas of the unconscious
Cyborgs, robots, and automatons
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I'm Not a Robot Prove your humanity once and for all

Just got sucked into @neal.fun's "Not a Robot"

neal.fun/not-a-robot/

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.

How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer?

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

№ 100 | ✨Special Edition:✨ A Look Back at 99 Issues of Thinking Things Welcome to a rare clip show edition of the Thinking Things newsletter. You can read my rambling preamble, or skip down to this special super-charged selection of thinking things! One reason I maintai...

Paging @bomberstudios.com and @miniver.bsky.social

A collection of Thinking Things

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They don’t post like this on Twitter anymore 👌

This thread gets me.